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FLORIDA has jumped from 20th to roth among states in population in the last ten years-a pace that has made it the fastest-growing state in the Union. It grew 79% between 1950 and 1960. Obviously, there is more to the story than sunshine and swimming pools, and it could not be pictured -in the traditional way, with bikini-clad girls beside their cabanas, or the old folks retired to the green park benches of St. Petersburg. So TIME assigned three photographers to tell the story of Florida in the age of Canaveral, frozen orange juice and artificially filled...
...team of Bob Kaufmann, Alan Engelberg, Bill Zentgraf and Bruce Hunter was two tenths of a second under the record set by Southern California last year. Michigan State, which had the fastest qualifying time, was second in 3:20. Yale finished fourth...
...FASTEST PAIN RELIEF CLAIMS of Anacin, Bufferin, St. Joseph and Bayer aspirin that boom unceasingly at TV viewers are false advertising, FTC charges. "There is no significant difference in the rate of speed," says FTC. FTC says Anacin tablets neither "relax tension" nor "help overcome depression" as advertised...
Into service with American Airlines this week went the world's fastest commercial airliner-the Boeing 707-120B, a faster version of the 707. Called by American the Astrojet, the new plane cruises at 640 m.p.h., flies from New York to Los Angeles in 5 hr. 25 min., trimming 25 min. off the old schedule. The new plane will also benefit those living near airports: it takes off and climbs so quickly that it will pass over neighboring communities at higher altitudes, markedly reducing the noise. Since it does not need to mix water with fuel for added...
This week Polaroid announced another of the new develop ments that have made it Wall Street's darling (its stock went from 96¼ in January 1959 to 261 last year, is now 189) and one of the photography industry's fastest growing companies...